NYTHEATRE PICKS
WHAT'S HERE: A sampling of ten highly recommended shows according to nytheatre.com's reviewers. Follow the show title links to learn more about each one and to read the review.
Bob Laine and Josh Hartung in a scene from Me
ME: The most important new American play of the season: a new work by Kirk Wood Bromley that considers what it means to be an actor on a planet where life is dying. PICK OF THE WEEK!
A CATERED AFFAIR: This new musical by John Bucchino and Harvey Fierstein is very touching, intimate, and authentically human. Faith Prince and Tom Wopat, as a married couple whose daughter is getting married, are excellent.
GOD'S EAR: Jenny Schwartz's play is a remarkable display of poetic and linguistic pyrotechnics: it's about a couple trying to cope with their grief over a lost child. At Vineyard Theatre.
PASSING STRANGE: The most exciting new musical of the season, featuring the eclectic, tuneful music of Stew and Heidi Rodewald. It's a coming-of-age story about a young black man from Los Angeles who travels to Europe to find himself.
SOUTH PACIFIC: The highlight of the spring season on Broadway: a beautifully realized production of the classic romantic wartime musical by Rodgers & Hammerstein.
THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: Washington Irving's lighthearted morality tale about a miser who sells his soul to the devil is the basis for this delightful new musical from Metropolitan Playhouse. The songs are by Rob Kendt; text is by Anthony P. Pennino.
THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE: The Actors Company Theatre present a rare revival of Tennessee Williams's re-write of Summer and Smoke.
THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS: An exciting, sexy, and smart physical theatre piece by Austin McCormick that tells the story of Paris and Helen of Troy in a very contemporary fashion.
THE UNCONQUERED: A play by Torben Betts about a young woman seriously at odds with her father; this is part of the Brits off Brodway Festival.
YELLOW MOON: A terrific new play by Scottish author David Greig about two teenagers on the run; this is the opening production of 59E59's Brits Off Broadway Festival.
